So...just curious since the chorus of PC gamers will be shouting from their mountaintops soon, how much would it cost to buy these parts? Obviously PC's need WAY better specs to provide the same experience (something PC gamers always forget to mention). After all the PS3 has only 512 MB RAM. How well could a PC run these games with that?

About Galkai/Cloud service. I missed the presentation. How is that suppose to work? It's obviously an online service which will help stream ps, ps2 and ps3 games. Does that mean I got wait until they load up a library for me to play automatically without downloading or will I be able to put on my optical discs for them to read by some air type emulator that will allow the games to function on next gen hardware?

Well they talked about two sides of the Gakai tech for PS4. One side is spectating others and jumping into their games to help them if they request you to, another is streaming demos of PS4 games rather than having to download them to your console

Then they also mentioned that they are looking to bring PS1/2/3 on the cloud to be able to stream, presumably not only on the PS4 but on the Vita and smartphones/tablets

That's how it went if I remember right

The PS4 streaming to Vita over local WiFi is not using Gakai tech as far as I can tell. Seems more like the PS4 acting as a server powerful enough to diminish latency to the Vita over a local WiFi (n?) connection. That seems to have gone under a lot of people, but for me, that's a huge pull. It's basically WiiU functionality

Well they talked about two sides of the Gakai tech for PS4. One side is spectating others and jumping into their games to help them if they request you to, another is streaming demos of PS4 games rather than having to download them to your console

Then they also mentioned that they are looking to bring PS1/2/3 on the cloud to be able to stream, presumably not only on the PS4 but on the Vita and smartphones/tablets

That's how it went if I remember right

The PS4 streaming to Vita over local WiFi is not using Gakai tech as far as I can tell. Seems more like the PS4 acting as a server powerful enough to diminish latency to the Vita over a local WiFi (n?) connection. That seems to have gone under a lot of people, but for me, that's a huge pull. It's basically WiiU functionality

Assuming they've killed the latency which they say they have

And Nintendo fan boys will say Sony is copying Nintendo again even though remote play has been used on the PS3! I hope it works great, I have been holding off getting a Vita, but if it can stream the game to the Vita with little to no lag then I will be all over that as well!

Well they talked about two sides of the Gakai tech for PS4. One side is spectating others and jumping into their games to help them if they request you to, another is streaming demos of PS4 games rather than having to download them to your console

Then they also mentioned that they are looking to bring PS1/2/3 on the cloud to be able to stream, presumably not only on the PS4 but on the Vita and smartphones/tablets

That's how it went if I remember right

The PS4 streaming to Vita over local WiFi is not using Gakai tech as far as I can tell. Seems more like the PS4 acting as a server powerful enough to diminish latency to the Vita over a local WiFi (n?) connection. That seems to have gone under a lot of people, but for me, that's a huge pull. It's basically WiiU functionality

Assuming they've killed the latency which they say they have

Yeah, this Gaikai thing seems pretty damn huge. I hope it's at least half as good as they're promising.

I am curious on how they are going to handle game lag with it...I know with some games it isn't a big concern, but some games it is!

They said they were forming the largest global network ever conceived for this purpose and are investing what seems like billions of dollars in cooperation with other partners to make this cloud gaming experience as awesome as possible. But we're only going on promises right now. If this lives up to how they're saying it is... it will be truly amazing and will pave the road for all future iterations of the PlayStation franchise.

They said they were forming the largest global network ever conceived for this purpose and are investing what seems like billions of dollars in cooperation with other partners to make this cloud gaming experience as awesome as possible. But we're only going on promises right now. If this lives up to how they're saying it is... it will be truly amazing and will pave the road for all future iterations of the PlayStation franchise.

I am hoping this video compression/decompression processor that is in it will be the key to fixing the lag, but I will believe it when I see it!

The chip entirely dedicated to downloading and uploading should certainly help a lot.

That too! In the back of my mind I was thinking they were going to throw the CELL BE in there as a co-processor for something like this to make it BC with the PS3 (like they did when the PS2 came out), but I guess not!

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